Background
Appleby was born in Ash Grove, Greene County, Missouri to Andrew B. and Mary (Johnson) Appleby.
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Appleby was born in Ash Grove, Greene County, Missouri to Andrew B. and Mary (Johnson) Appleby.
Grinnell College.
He earned his Bachelor of Arts from Grinnell College in 1913. The couple had three children, Margaret Finley, Mary Ellen Sarbaugh, and L. Tom. He began his career as a newspaper publisher in Montana, Minnesota, and Iowa from 1914 through 1920.
He was the editor of Iowa Magazine in Waterloo, Iowa from 1920–1924 and an editorial writer at the Des Moines Register and Tribune from 1924 until 1928.
The family moved to Virginia in 1928 where again worked as a newspaper publisher until accepting a position with the United States. government. He served as the Executive Assistant to the Secretary of Agriculture from 1933 through 1940 and the Under Secretary of Agriculture from 1940 until 1944 in Franklin Doctorate. Roosevelt"s administration.
He was Assistant Director of the United States. Bureau of the Budget from 1944 through 1947 in the Truman Administration. In 1947, became the Dean of the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, of Syracuse University, where he became a noted author of works in the field of public administration.
He died in October 1963.
His famous works include-Big Democracy(1945) Policy and Administration(1949) Morality and administration in Democratic Government(1952) Public administration for welfare state(1961).
